Cybersecurity and privacy are a key pillar of every company’s risk governance program – or at least should be. Alicja Cade, Director, Financial Services, Office of the CISO, Google Cloud suggests some questions Boards and CEOs should be asking about the company’s cybersecurity program. Here are some questions that she is recommending the Board gets […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Today the FBI arrested the person they say leaked hundreds of classified documents on US surveillance related to the war in Ukraine. The impact of this leak may rise to the level of the damage caused by Edward Snowden in 2013. They continue to find more classified documents as the investigation continues. What is different […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]I understand why they want to do this and I hope they have some smart people trying to figure out the rules, but given things move so fast, it is likely that any rule will be obsolete in 6 months and the government is not good at dealing with situations like that. In a document soliciting public […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]This is a secondary problem of vendor cyber risk. The first problem is that you are dependent on a lot of vendors. You have to depend on those vendors. If they screw up, you get sued. And you lose customers. To make matters worse, when one of your vendors gets breached, you are only one […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]In case you have not notice, email security firm Cofense scanned emails from 35 million of its customers. Luckily, they used machine learning to do the analysis. Cofense’s report has these major conclusions: The numbers are a bit mind boggling. Among the statistics – A third of the phishing emails have a finance theme. This […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]If this seems hyperbolic, it may not be. In December 2020 the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) charged Ripple, who provides infrastructure for cross-border payments and also its executives with conducting a 1.3 billion dollar unregistered security offering. The core of this is whether their XRP cryptocurrency is a security. Ripple has been fighting […]
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